Elaborate Gingerbread House With Candy Decorations Coloring Page
A gingerbread house where every surface is edible, from the candy roof tiles to the mint path at the door.
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Every surface of this house is made of something edible. The roof is tiled with overlapping candies, gumdrops line the ridge, a piped icing trim runs along the eaves and around the window frames, and a path of round mints leads to the door. The detailed treatment means the icing is drawn as individual scalloped loops, so there is a great deal of small work. Comfortable for adults and patient older children.
This is the rare page where you should not be subtle. Candy is supposed to look artificial, so bright unmixed color straight from the pencil or marker is the right choice. Leave the icing white, or nearly white with the faintest blue shadow underneath, and it will read as icing against whatever you put behind it. Alternating colors on the roof candies in a checker arrangement looks better than scattering them randomly.
Gingerbread houses trace to Germany, and their popularity is usually credited to the Brothers Grimm publishing Hansel and Gretel in 1812. Bakers in Nuremberg were already making decorated gingerbread, and the story handed them a shape to sell.
